The world of Danielle Donaldson is as wondrous as a jar full of fireflies. Her whimsical illustrations are known for their offbeat color combinations, artful arrangements and endearing quirkiness. In this book, you'll learn how to partner with the wonderfully spontaneous medium of watercolor to create your own brand of magic.
Start by creating a handmade journal, then follow exercises and start-to-finish projects to fill it with illustrations that are small in size but big on color. Along the way, Danielle shares her fresh takes on color theory, perspective, composition and more.
Designed to get your brush moving, this book makes practice feel like play. It's a one-of-a-kind journey for any artist wishing to tap into the utter joy of watercolor painting and make it a cherished part of your daily life. In a crowded world you need to be seen! This book is for you if you are an introvert, are new to your industry or want practical and actionable tips to stand out and be seen. Author, Faith McKinney, knows from experience how to be seen.
Although she is an introvert, Faith has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, many national blogs, and books. Faith is lead Ambassador of Successful Thinkers of Indianapolis. She is an on air personality for ICIndymag. Through Schmingling, Faith has been elevated to celebrity status even though she works as a janitor. She is a sought after speaker and advisor for business and social advice even though she did not complete college. Schmingling - The Art of Being Well-Connected Through Blatant Self-Promotion will give you the confidence to create the expert and celebrity status you need to succeed in your business.
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Happily, women everywhere can now rely on Jeanne Martinet, the mingling maven who's already helped transform hordes of ungainly souls into social swans.
In this uniquely useful and funny book, she delivers anecdotes, dead-on insights, and men-tested, ready-to-use lines for every dating situation, no matter how awkward, exciting, unusual, or just plain mortifying.
Poetic, witty, and ever so faintly surreal, Seferdelicately explores the legacy of the Holocaust for the postwargeneration, a generation for whom a devastating history has growndistant, both temporally and emotionally. The novel'sprotagonist, Jan Sefer, is a psychotherapist living inVienna--someone whose professional life puts him in daily contactwith the traumas of others but who has found it difficult to addresshis own family background, especially his memories of his father.
Much like memory itself, Sefer speaks to usobliquely, through the juxtaposition of images and vignettes ratherthan through the construction of a linear narrative. With itsfragmentary structure and its preference for hints rather thanexplanations, the novel belongs to the realm of the postmodern, whileit also incorporates subtle elements of magical realism.
One of Poland's best-known poets, Ewa Lipska is today a majorfigure in European literature. In their translation of Sefer,Lipska's first novel, translators Barbara Bogoczek and TonyHoward deftly capture the poet's unmistakable voice--cooland precise, gently ironic, and deeply humane. Her poetryhas been widely translated, into Hebrew as well as into Europeanlanguages.
Barbara Bogoczek is a freelance translatorand interpreter based in London. Tony Howard isprofessor of English at Warwick University. From the author of the widely-acclaimed The Art of Mingling comes a witty, inspirational romantic comedy about endings That's what depressed, year-old Tess Eliot has to remind herself after losing her newspaper column "Tess Knows Best" and being dumped by her boyfriend for a younger woman a feng shui expert? But when the out-of-work Tess gets hired by a wacky cult W.
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Perfect reading as the end of the world approaches. Read it, laugh out loud, and be prepared for anything! Etiquette for the End of the World is brilliant, page-turning fun. Another young adult book on romantic relationships and singleness! Weren't expecting that, now were you? That was sarcasm. Audio Software icon An illustration of a 3. Software Images icon An illustration of two photographs. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses.
The art of mingling : easy, fun, and proven techniques for mastering any room Item Preview. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! All the people I admire as great socialisers are actually charming, interesting, interested and sociable.
They mingle well because they are genuinely interested in having a great conversation and will do their best to make everyone feel welcome within it. If they mingle strategically, it's only in the way a host would. That is, they greet people and introduce them to other people continuously.
Basically, I agree with very little in this book. Much of her advice on what to avoid talking about at parties is sound, however her advice on what TO talk about is pretty awful.
I also agree that it's unwise to get yourself anywhere near comfy couches if you're looking to mingle. I agree that if you do want to mingle you may need to extricate yourself from conversations at times - even if you're enjoying it. But, I can't condone lies and silly games to get yourself in or out of conversations. And if I see anyone using any of these tactics at a party I'll be quite disgusted with them. EDIT: I was talking to my husband about this book after writing this review and he summarised it perfectly: It's as if an autistic person wrote a book about mingling, describing what they saw happening, but without understanding the subtle human interactions that were actually going on in front of them.
View all 5 comments. I got to "Advanced Mingling Techniques" and decided to abandon ship. I picked this up mostly for the humor factor, but seriously - so much of it is based on lying, often at the expense of other party guests! View 1 comment.
It is quite amazing how easy mingling seems, in theory, after reading this book. There are so many topics of conversation suggested that it seems inconceivable that anyone could ever be lost for words. The trouble is I still am. I suspect it would take more than a book to make me mingle, but for less hopeless cases this book could well be the answer! Listened to the audiobook. Very enjoyable. I may even buy it for reference yes, I'm that socially challenged , and I rarely pay for books.
This book is only pages and it contains a lot of simple techniques, lines, and tricks to help you out in those mingling situations awkward or tough in life. Worth a read! Check it out! Never forget my earlier maxim: He who mingles best, mingles alone. Of course, I never said you couldn't occasionally have a little help. Food and drink should be a secondary part of your fun, and they can also serve as minglers' helpers in and of themselves.
If the truth is that you just made up a stupid mistake for no particular reason, stick to deceit. Another personality took over my body there for a minute. I'm still alive. Your face. But always remember that every new gathering-like every human being-is totally unique and unpredictable. You don't want to risk missing what may turn out to be the best time you ever had. Oh, how I loathed this book. I picked it up hoping I could find a few tips to help me at parties and work functions, as I'm not naturally very outgoing.
What I got was a sort of hymn to superficiality, a paean to shallowness. Although the author claims the number one goal of mingling is to "have fun," giant swathes of the book are devoted, as other reviewers have noted, to trying to get rid of people you don't want to talk to, and the number of techniques based on lying and deception are uncomfor Oh, how I loathed this book. Although the author claims the number one goal of mingling is to "have fun," giant swathes of the book are devoted, as other reviewers have noted, to trying to get rid of people you don't want to talk to, and the number of techniques based on lying and deception are uncomfortably high.
Her examples are also often highly based on social situations that only people of a different class than I will ever encounter. I have to attend parties for work sometimes, and once a year, I even have to go to a sort of reception with other librarians and state politicians.
But the number of times I've been at a black-tie cocktail party and been saying bad things about a play, only to discover that I'm talking to the playwright, can be counted on one hand without necessitating the use of any fingers.
Her brief discussion of Taoism and mingling at the end was so out of character from the rest of the book that it was almost insulting. There's probably an interesting book to be written about the intersection of Taoism and socializing; it may even already be in print. This ain't it though. Also, the author was the narrator on the CD it's actually 4 CDs, for what it's worth , and her voice and delivery only compound the smugness of this book. I did actually finish the whole thing, but I can't say I'd think that was a course of action I'd reccommend.
It was laughably bad and I hope I'm never a target of the author's at some even that requires mingling. If so, these are some of the lines I could expect to be tried on me: 1. I'm trying to decide what to name my cat. And after we break the ice, what if we fall in? This book was filled with some pretty bad advice, in my opinion, and I can't recommend it. I do feel slightly bad for poking fun at this book and the author in this review, but I can't believe that no where in the publishing process that someone didn't think this book needed some major tweaking to make it more palatable.
Evident author investment and interest in getting minglephobes out there mingling, but at times too lighthearted and techniques all named something cutesy can get annoying. Overall, a nice read for ideas, and will use for upcoming meet and greet for new Head of School. It's a common sense book about connecting and meeting people, but not in a slimy pickup artist kind of a way.
Presented with humor, style, and class, the author makes us think that any of us can Mingle anytime, anywhere.
Jan 27, Jeanette Ms. This book advocates outright dishonesty and phoniness in the interest of making people like you. Skip it! The Art of Mingling is filled with extremely useful and practical advice offered up with liberal amounts of wit and wisdom.
The author's examples and suggested lines amuse as well as instruct, making this both an enjoyable and useful handbook for social success in any situation--whether recreational or professional.
Her tips for white lying may seem insincere at first glance -- but actually kindness is at the core of them all. This playful and entertaining book reminds us that the art of minglin The Art of Mingling is filled with extremely useful and practical advice offered up with liberal amounts of wit and wisdom.
This playful and entertaining book reminds us that the art of mingling is best done face-to-face, not on your smartphone, and that above all else, it should be fun. I thought this was a cute book about how to mingle better at parties. I still think about a few of the pieces of advice today, several years after I read it. For example, never sit down with someone unless you want to completely excuse yourself from the party.
I generally benefit more from books with a bit more research and science to back up its claims, but this was more of a cute, light read. How many of us go to a function, seek out the people we know, and hang with them all night? This author wants us to meet new people, broaden our horizons, and provides some good ideas on exactly how to do that.
Parties would be much more fun if everyone were trained with Ms. Martinet's techiniques View 2 comments. This is a hilarious book that gives the reader tips to have the most fun in all the parties. The tips are very good and useful. I have applied some of them myself and have not been disappointed.
To mingle is almost like acting: you pretend to be someone fabulous; feel like that and act like that; and people just follow you.
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